The Jungle is Neutral: A Soldier's Two-Year Escape from the Japanese Army

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In fact, he spend much of the next three years trudging from one jungle camp to another and trying to keep body (and one assumes mind) together. The book powerfully makes the point that the jungle is just about the most hostile place you could choose to live. The health of those who tried to do so was every bit as bad as that of those imprisoned in Japanese PoW camps. He also makes some interesting points about the importance of face saving in the local community, to the extent that Chinese guerilla leaders would refuse to attend lectures on jungle fighting tactics in case it looked to their men like they didn't know what they were doing. Lccn 88029554 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL2051825M Openlibrary_edition Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Green cloth on boards with fade on fore-edges of covers. After the war, Chapman was asked to form a school in Germany for the sons and daughters of British Forces and Control Commission Civilians resident in the British Zone of occupied Germany. This school, the King Alfred School, Plön, for children 11 to 18 years of age, used the German naval establishment at Plön in Schleswig-Holstein where Admiral Dönitz had resided during the last days of World War II. Chapman, as headmaster, set up the school, organised the teachers, arranged for the alterations to accept both boys and girls, and then in one day in 1948 accepted 400 young boys and girls into what was possibly the first successful comprehensive, co-educational boarding school in the world. His dynamism and understanding of the requirements of young people were the guiding influence in setting up the school to become a first class success story which lasted for 11 years. He was relieved after its successful commencement, at which time he continued in educational work as Headmaster of St Andrew's College, Grahamstown, South Africa [17] (1956–61) Then Warden at the Pestalozzi Children’s Village Sedlescombe between (1962–66) and Warden of Wantage Hall at the University of Reading (1966–71).

The jungle is neutral by Frederick Spencer Chapman - Open Library The jungle is neutral by Frederick Spencer Chapman - Open Library

The most unusual lines of the book have to be these: "At this meal there was a meat dish about which there seemed to be some mystery. I found it very good, being less rank then monkey though not so good as jungle pig. After the meal I was told that I had been eating Jap. Though I would not knowingly have become a cannibal I was quite interested to have sampled human flesh". When Singapore fell to the Japanese in December 1941, Captain Freddie Spencer Chapman chose to take the fight to the enemy . At the age of 8, "after a disastrous term in the kindergarten of a girls' school in Kendal [then Westmorland, now Cumbria], I was sent to a private school at Ben Rhydding, on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors. The headmaster – a man of infinite kindness and understanding- was an enthusiastic entomologist... [and] I left Private School with a good knowledge of gardening and a vast enthusiasm for all forms of natural history." [4]The engines are hard to kill and they just keep going forever if you service them at the correct interval. Gearboxes have the highest potential to give mechanical problems on a Perentie Land Rover, but once again, if you service them at the correct interval, you can avoid most problems. The suspension is a bit hard and they do benefit from the adition of long-travel suspension for improved handling on rough terrain. Chin Peng, the Communist guerrilla leader who worked with Chapman, had this to say in his excellent book MY SIDE OF HISTORY:

The Jungle is Neutral: The Epic True Story of One Man’s War The Jungle is Neutral: The Epic True Story of One Man’s War

Whilst at Sedbergh School, Chapman won a Kitchener scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1926, to study history and English. It was there that he developed his passion for adventure and, by the end of his university years, had already completed several overseas excursions including a climbing expedition in the Alps and a journey to Iceland to study plant and bird life. [3] It was here that he met, and was inspired by, the great mountaineer Geoffrey Winthrop Young, and joined the Cambridge University Mountaineering Club (CUMC). [6] Expeditions [ edit ]Trekking deep behind enemy lines into the jungle, this veteran explorer turned special forces operative unleashed a one-man commando campaign of such destructive power and lethal ferocity that the Japanese deployed a Regiment of four thousand men in a desperate effort to hunt him down. Spencer Chapman lived with Communist guerrillas and, unlike many Western accounts, recognises their role and their courage in defeating the Japanese.